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Physical therapy student Suzanne Dougherty is one of only six students nationally who received this year’s Mary McMillan Scholarship from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). |
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Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D., recently was named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. |
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UNMC security corporal Greg Higgins took the cover shot for the Spring 2010 edition of the poetry journal, Plains Song Review. |
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From left: Alison Freidfeld, M.D., Marg Helgenberg and Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., at the University Hospital Auxiliary’s Kaleidoscope 2010 event. |
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Howard Gendelman, M.D., and his wife, Bonnie Bloch, M.D., will be honored on May 23 for their work in community outreach and education by the Friedel Jewish Academy, a nationally accredited K-6 Jewish day school in Omaha. |
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James Talmadge, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of International Immunopharmacology, is helping the journal celebrate it’s 10th anniversary this year. |
Suzanne Dougherty, a physical therapy student in the School of Allied Health Professions, is one of only six recipients to receive this year’s Mary McMillan Scholarship from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The national award honors outstanding physical therapy students. According to APTA data, more than 7,200 students of the nation’s 2010 physical therapy graduates are eligible for the award. In the past 33 years, UNMC has had 17 McMillan scholarship recipients.
Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and associate director of the Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine, has been named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Her term begins in July and ends in June 2016.
Greg Higgins, a campus security corporal who takes pictures in his free time, had one of his photos selected to appear on the cover of the Spring 2010 Plains Song Review, a poetry journal published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Higgins also had several other photos published in the journal.
Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center, and his wife, Alison Freifeld, M.D., professor of internal medicine, were honorary chairs of the University Hospital Auxiliary’s Kaleidoscope 2010 event last weekend. The event, which featured television’s Marg Helgenberger, raised $202,000 to help fund the new Life Renewal Center at The Nebraska Medical Center’s Cancer Center at Village Pointe in Omaha.
Howard Gendelman, M.D., chairman of the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, and his wife, Bonnie Bloch, M.D., will be honored on May 23 for their work in community outreach and education. Dr. Gendelman and his wife are being recognized by the Friedel Jewish Academy, a nationally accredited K-6 Jewish day school in Omaha.
James Talmadge, Ph.D., professor of pathology and microbiology at UNMC and editor-in-chief of International Immunopharmacology, is leading the journal’s celebration of it’s 10th anniversary. As part of the festivities, the journal will host the International Immunopharmacology Conference in October in Virginia.